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#275 Mention the release version/date of SBO that is described in the spec
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2015-05-14
2014-10-07
No
Section 5 of the specification for L2v4 does not mention which release of SBO is described, making it difficult for a reader to know whether any changes they find in SBO today are the result of errors in the spec or changes in SBO since the spec was released. We should mention the version of SBO described.
I do not agree. Specifying the SBO version would freeze its use. One could not add types of parameters, rate laws etc. The interest of SBO is that it is continuously evolving. Being a proper ontology, terms do not disappear of change meaning. Freezing it would not even allow us to fix mistakes.
If we need an SBML endorsed version of a vocabulary, this must be in the specification itself, as the list of units or math elements. This is a completely different use case.
Yes, of course! I didn't realize my issue report was so unclear. It was always the case that the specifications only described the top level of SBO and left the details for people to find in SBO itself. I'm merely saying what Lucian clarified below, that the specification does not currently say "at the time this specification was written, SBO was at release X" -- but it should say that somewhere.
Last edit: Michael Hucka 2014-10-07
I think the idea was not to freeze SBO at a particular release, but rather merely to emphasize that the description of SBO in the SBML spec was based on a particular release. It would continue to be emphasized that the current version of SBO should always be used, and would always be legal. At least, that's my take on what Mike was getting at.
Sorry, my mistake :-(
I agree with the change then.
I agree with the change
I agree with the change and that it should be done.
I agree with the change and that it should be done.
Based on the SBML Development Process for handling issue reports, we have 4 out of 5 editors agreeing with the change. I'm changing the status to accepted and adding it to the list of collected errata at http://sbml.org/Documents/Specifications/SBML_Level_2/Version_4/Errata
This change has been incorporated into the L2v5 release candidate.
The change has also been incorporated into the L3v2 release candidate, and added to the list of errata at http://sbml.org/Documents/Specifications/SBML_Level_3/Version_1/Core/Confirmed_issues_in_the_Level_3_Version_1_Core_Specification and http://sbml.org/Documents/Specifications/SBML_Level_2/Version_4/Collected_Errata_to_the_SBML_Level_2_Version_4_Specification